Cristina Lo Presti

PhD Student
PhD in - XXXV cycle
Tutor: Gabriella D'APRILE

She is specialized in geography and anthropology. She is studying transformative practices and processes of active citizenship in the field of urban pedagogy, in order to encourage and enhance accessibility, participation, and the right to the city, understood as a new urban space of “agorà. In pursuing her research, she opts for both a theoretical and an empirical approach and an hermeneutic qualitative methodology with the aim of building and improving the tangible and intangible cultural heritage in an inclusive manner.

  1. Lo Presti C., Puttilli M. (2017) “Tra  pratica culturale e risorsa turistica. Lo Street food a Mandalay (Myanmar)”,  in (S)radicamenti, Società di Studi Geografici. Memorie geografiche NS 15, pp. 565-573
  2. Lo Presti C. (2016) “Arte e Spazio pubblico. Il caso delle poesie di strada a Firenze”, in Rivista Geografica Italiana n.124, pp. 401-416
  3. Lo Presti C. (2016) “Street food and local culinary culture” in (LaGeS) Suistainable Destination Plan for the Ancient Cities of Upper Myanamr (ACUM) Mandalay, Amarapura, Innwa, Sagaing Mingun (2016-2021), Firenze, Polistampa.